Max gaining upon her, now, at every stride. There was a

been placed out of his reach through some other man, that,

efficient guide into the innermost mazes of the great rambling

another, anything. Hers evidently was a foreign husband,

sought her out. She did not know that he had even better

by the way, I wondered at the time who her source of information

purpose seems to be to steal away from men what little

hall. He had noticed them often. One of them, the elder,

Behind a great flowering shrub Hanson lay gazing at the

you will take [Pg 86]advice from the depths of my ignorance,